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and with a partnership of jim duff about museum, the washington idea forum was born. so overt next two days you'll hear some of the world's greatest journalist interview news makers and leaders, discuss and debate topics as varied as the election aftermath, global health, education reform. the future of china and many more subject. as we bear with me. i would like to offer words of appreciation for some of the organization and people that have made this event possible. it starts very much at the top of the list with a big thank you to margaret karlson, who is the editorial directer of the washington idea forum. she's wonderful and talented and been the creative force behind the vision of the event from the beginning. thank you margaret, [applause] the event would not be possible without -- i was looking for an adjective that captured the essence. steve clemons with the atlanta now. he's been a great force. the museum shelby, who has also been a key architect of the event. this year after doing something different we welcome a new partnership with the harvard institute
and with a partnership of jim duff about museum, the washington idea forum was born. so overt next two days you'll hear some of the world's greatest journalist interview news makers and leaders, discuss and debate topics as varied as the election aftermath, global health, education reform. the future of china and many more subject. as we bear with me. i would like to offer words of appreciation for some of the organization and people that have made this event possible. it starts very much at...
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in washington that is a lot. our first guest has a deep understanding of the way the intelligence community works. joining us now, former cia operative, the highly decorated operative who served 23 years in a clandestine service. he worked as chief of station in the middle east and latin america -- let america. the first question has to be, the former cia director saying that he does not know what happened after the cia send over their memorandum. that isn't the one he delivered, and the changes had to be made subsequently. the cia director, by the way, you anticipated when you were on this broadcast a few years ago saying that it had to have originatedin -- the changes, the flow from the white house to the united nations ambassador had to occur either in the state department of the white house itself. >> i stand by that. and the fact is that no one writes those sorts of things that a cia officer would right to my director would write other them at the white house or at stake. remember something. the u.n. ambassa
in washington that is a lot. our first guest has a deep understanding of the way the intelligence community works. joining us now, former cia operative, the highly decorated operative who served 23 years in a clandestine service. he worked as chief of station in the middle east and latin america -- let america. the first question has to be, the former cia director saying that he does not know what happened after the cia send over their memorandum. that isn't the one he delivered, and the...
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there was a new mood in washington. before the election, the framework for discussion was all cuts and no revenues. now, the framework has changed. the american people made it very clear that revenues have to be part of a balanced deal. the republican leadership, mr. boehner has indicated he's putting revenues on the table. that makes it possible for us to begin the very difficult discussion about what revenues and how do you get them and what cuts and how do you make them. so we have a lot of work to do. at least the framework is some greater possibility for a positive outcome. >> last time around, republicans insisted that any new increases in revenue must be off-set by a lowering of tax rates. are you encouraged by the gop's apparent new willingness to accept a more balanced approach? >> i'm very much encouraged by it. that is what made it impossible for us to even have discussions at all up until the election results came in. as you know, president obama ran on a very explicit platform of restoring the clinton area
there was a new mood in washington. before the election, the framework for discussion was all cuts and no revenues. now, the framework has changed. the american people made it very clear that revenues have to be part of a balanced deal. the republican leadership, mr. boehner has indicated he's putting revenues on the table. that makes it possible for us to begin the very difficult discussion about what revenues and how do you get them and what cuts and how do you make them. so we have a lot of...
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and david ignatius washington post, reporting early on there was a report video. the president himself used aed word terror in the rose garden and the day after. it seems like the right wing media is trying to make something here, tried to do it during the the election as if it would somehow change the results of election and which it didn't. and continuing the rap on the president that i don't think was a coverup. >> and then the media seemed to love the defense of ambassador rice, the president. one said, there is no damsel in distress and obama's eternalistic bravado of a top administrative official is going to come back to haunt him. she's a big girl in a big position and she should defend herself and what she said. >> i don't think it's necessarily a right wing smackdown of susan rice, it's the liberal media make it go about john mccain's comments about susan rice and john mccain never used the word filibuster. he said he would have serious issues susan rice as secretary of state. i agree with judy, what is susan rice doing representing the administration on
and david ignatius washington post, reporting early on there was a report video. the president himself used aed word terror in the rose garden and the day after. it seems like the right wing media is trying to make something here, tried to do it during the the election as if it would somehow change the results of election and which it didn't. and continuing the rap on the president that i don't think was a coverup. >> and then the media seemed to love the defense of ambassador rice, the...
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. >>> in washington, emily schmidt. >>> jill kelly and her twin sister visited three times eating two courtesy meals at the white house cafeteria and getting a tour of an aid. it was a request for an investigation into a threatening e-mail that uncovered cia's marital affair. >>> california unemployment rate stood at 10.1% compared to 10.2. down 1.5% from a year ago. the rate shows employers add just under 46,000 new jobs last month. 20,000 of the new jobbing were in resale. the unemployment number remained the same throughout our counties. none are in the double digits. they have the highest number,ala meadea comes in lower. >> president barack obama and say they are optimistic of falling of the fiscal cliff. they called the meeting constructive. they expect to find a way to stop the cuts that are set to kick in january 1st. >> what folks are looking for and awful us agree on this is action. they want to see we are focused on them, not focused on our politics here in washington. >> at a press conference after the meeting, the sauce speaker says increased is on the table. >>> on wall
. >>> in washington, emily schmidt. >>> jill kelly and her twin sister visited three times eating two courtesy meals at the white house cafeteria and getting a tour of an aid. it was a request for an investigation into a threatening e-mail that uncovered cia's marital affair. >>> california unemployment rate stood at 10.1% compared to 10.2. down 1.5% from a year ago. the rate shows employers add just under 46,000 new jobs last month. 20,000 of the new jobbing were in...
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we see him in campaign commercials eating crabs and going to games but in washington congressman is the highest ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee trying to get to the bottom of what led to the deaths of four americans in libya. >> david petraeus, the former head of the cia told the house and intelligence committees what he knew. libya congressman dutch sits on the house committee which oversee the cia along with the nsa and fbi. >> people don't realize, there were two different attacks. >> two attacks, the first at the u.s. consulate then at a cia an exsome four file ace way. the question republicans have been asking why didn't the president come out and it a terrorist attack right away. >> now clearly believe did not arise out of demonstration, were not spontaneous and clear terrorist involvement. >> it was david petraeus who initially indicated the attack grew out of a protest then changed the story when he got more information. >> we need to deal what happened in benghazi. if somebody made a mistake, they need to be held accountable. that's important. but we have t
we see him in campaign commercials eating crabs and going to games but in washington congressman is the highest ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee trying to get to the bottom of what led to the deaths of four americans in libya. >> david petraeus, the former head of the cia told the house and intelligence committees what he knew. libya congressman dutch sits on the house committee which oversee the cia along with the nsa and fbi. >> people don't realize, there were...
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jimmy p., i love this new washington picture. and i don't want to be pessimistic. i want to be optimistic. maybe they can make a deal. but here's what i worry about, jimmy. here's what i fear. the republicans are conceding that they'll give a revenue -- a tax revenue portion by limiting deductions. but i don't see any spending cuts. the sequester has been called off. mr. boehner would like a down payment on entitlements. i don't see that happening. to me remember it used to be 3-1 or 4-1 spending cuts to revenue increases. right now it looks to me like it's 10-1. 10-0. $10 of revenue hikes and no spending cuts, jimmy pethokoukis. >> i think what we're going to get at the end of the day, you're going to get a lot of tax increases, and then you're going to get a lot of promises about caps and mechanisms. be careful of the word "process." there's going to be a process in place for looking at further spending cuts. or entitlement reform. but that's all going to be like tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, the 12th of never. what we're going to get right away are tax incre
jimmy p., i love this new washington picture. and i don't want to be pessimistic. i want to be optimistic. maybe they can make a deal. but here's what i worry about, jimmy. here's what i fear. the republicans are conceding that they'll give a revenue -- a tax revenue portion by limiting deductions. but i don't see any spending cuts. the sequester has been called off. mr. boehner would like a down payment on entitlements. i don't see that happening. to me remember it used to be 3-1 or 4-1...
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and washington, d.c. we have another really big event at dar constitution hall on december 7th which is incredible. >> any documentaries planned in the future? >> we have a lot of other extra stuff coming, but i don't know what the next project s. for now, please visit honor flight the movie.com. learn more. >> there is a young guy that does this show late at night. it might be a good documentary. works for fox news. >> it is an important thing and you have to go see this thing. my dad was an army air corp vet. he passed away awhile ago. he went to the memorial and it was incredibly moving. this is really important what you did. >> thank you. >> a lot of military up here. i am a former brat. sometimes still a brat. >> you are always a brat. >> i know. >> for more information go to honor flight the movie.com. we will close things up with a post game wrap up from our army vet, andy levy. >>> andy levy and post game wrap up. >> any recommendations for what people should do going to boise? >> get yourself a f
and washington, d.c. we have another really big event at dar constitution hall on december 7th which is incredible. >> any documentaries planned in the future? >> we have a lot of other extra stuff coming, but i don't know what the next project s. for now, please visit honor flight the movie.com. learn more. >> there is a young guy that does this show late at night. it might be a good documentary. works for fox news. >> it is an important thing and you have to go see...
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. >> this week on "inside washington," a sex scandal at the top of the cia. the benghazi blame game. >> the american people deserve to know the facts. we cannot ever let this happen again. >> why would susan rice not get our vote? i don't trust her. >> defending susan rice. >> if senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. >> there are no barriers to sitting down and beginning to work through this process. >> as the fiscal cliff loans, is there a deal in the works? mitt romney explains why he lost. >> the president's campaign focused on certain members of his base coalition, give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government, and worked very aggressively to turn them out to vote. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> well, i just don't know where to begin this week. do we talk about republican charges of a cover-up with regard to the attack in benghazi? do we talk about sexual liaisons and e-mails? to talk about israel and gaza, the possibility of the fiscal cliff? le
. >> this week on "inside washington," a sex scandal at the top of the cia. the benghazi blame game. >> the american people deserve to know the facts. we cannot ever let this happen again. >> why would susan rice not get our vote? i don't trust her. >> defending susan rice. >> if senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. >> there are no barriers to sitting down and beginning to work through this...
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government because this happened after there is a meeting in washington. that they are embarking on a plan to wipe out all resistance to u.s. policy in the region and let's talk about why this is happening i mean we know that palestine is bidding for statehood november twenty ninth i think it is what what does this have to do with the offensive that we're seeing me well november twenty ninth is palestine solidarity day and on that day palestine is going to be bringing to the u.n. general assembly their bid for statehood which would really mean i mean that the big important thing about that is if they are granted statehood then the international criminal court has to see in this international court the allegations of war crimes and illegal settlements by the state of israel so israeli and u.s. officials tried very very hard to pressure the palestinian authority into not introducing this statehood bid and actually said if you do this we're going to punish you for it and so we're just weeks away from that statehood bed and so it's very likely that this is tha
government because this happened after there is a meeting in washington. that they are embarking on a plan to wipe out all resistance to u.s. policy in the region and let's talk about why this is happening i mean we know that palestine is bidding for statehood november twenty ninth i think it is what what does this have to do with the offensive that we're seeing me well november twenty ninth is palestine solidarity day and on that day palestine is going to be bringing to the u.n. general...
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and travels to these remote areas in washington every summer as he says he confines untouched landscapes like these anywhere else in the world. we're going off the list below sea line. if i go wrong the wrong and surprising you'll go straight to the water and so we did our plan to get closer to the sea lion and shake its flipper field before before before. one animal whose par you definitely wouldn't want to shake here is the brown bear you can literally spot a grizzly here by every small weaver this is where the bears are fishing but they have a very well be able to think that we have to keep an eye a wind direction and the distance between them and us up all that could be dangerous so we won't go yes to shell but before it was. and quiet we went but the wind was not on our side and the bear got away but they're usually the first to avoid contact with humans but during spawning time when both people and bears go fishing people often shoot at them to scare them away and every year here in the region you hear about someone being killed by the predators. but at the mugger down nature reser
and travels to these remote areas in washington every summer as he says he confines untouched landscapes like these anywhere else in the world. we're going off the list below sea line. if i go wrong the wrong and surprising you'll go straight to the water and so we did our plan to get closer to the sea lion and shake its flipper field before before before. one animal whose par you definitely wouldn't want to shake here is the brown bear you can literally spot a grizzly here by every small...
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should invasion russia has told the move a provocation and promise to retaliate meanwhile lawmakers in washington have voted to lift it. but last night also historian dr gerald ford believes u.s. actions will mean souring of relations. commences to something to moscow is that the research is. how russia quickly at that when one door closes another one opens what i mean is that that the human rights situation united states and so it's quite terrible and i would hope that the russian duma and the russian authorities would begin to scrutinize carefully the human rights situation right here in the united states where for example there's like one example most many black populations about twelve or thirteen percent of the population of about fifty percent of the prison population and they are disproportionately represented on death row slated for execution by the state authorities for example why not a miniscule bill in moscow that would pose a visa restrictions on religious businesses who would seek to do business with russia or involved in violation of equal opportunity laws right here in the united
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good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington to d.c. and today we have a very special show for you combining some of the great on air to eggs are some of our best recent interviews first stephen called bear is the latest to take on high frequency trading the twitter sphere is been abuzz over his segment on the colbert report earlier on our show this week you heard how c a t c commissioner chilton wants more regulations for h f t but today hear what he says to the argument that regulators just need to enforce what's on the books plus author and professor of behavioral economics dan ariely breaks down why executives at wall street firms may feel better about cheating customers if their primary responsibility is to deliver for shareholders and in loose change the wall street journal reports with elections coming up japan's main opposition leader is stepping up pressure on the good old central bank to ease more and get the country out of deflation and oh politics let's get to days capital account. so stephen colbert there recently took on h
good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington to d.c. and today we have a very special show for you combining some of the great on air to eggs are some of our best recent interviews first stephen called bear is the latest to take on high frequency trading the twitter sphere is been abuzz over his segment on the colbert report earlier on our show this week you heard how c a t c commissioner chilton wants more regulations for h f t but today hear what he says to...
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many americans are fed up with washington. jesse ventura has a lot to say about that in the fast past. i'm sure he will tonight. he's host of "conspiracy theory" with jesse venture ona our sister network, true tv. >> i thought i wonder what jesse ventura is thinking of this. obama still president, nothing much has changed. can we expect anything to improve? >> well, i don't know. they spent $6 billion was spent to keep it the same and we could have used that money for a lot of different things, and they told us this time they are going to work together for bipartisanship and after all, they are politicians, they wouldn't lie to us, would they? >> the ones with the real problems, not the democrats, they got back in. but republicans who seem to have just run up against a large cliff. what are the republicans do to try to reinvent themselves, make them more relevant do you think? >> you need to change their ideas rather than their people. if you bring forward the same people with the same ideas, you will head off the same cliff.
many americans are fed up with washington. jesse ventura has a lot to say about that in the fast past. i'm sure he will tonight. he's host of "conspiracy theory" with jesse venture ona our sister network, true tv. >> i thought i wonder what jesse ventura is thinking of this. obama still president, nothing much has changed. can we expect anything to improve? >> well, i don't know. they spent $6 billion was spent to keep it the same and we could have used that money for a...
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washington bureau chief from mother jones and our political analyst. let's take a look at some of this stuff from john mccain. four years since john mccain lost his presidential bid, ten days since mitt romney lost but they are holding a grudge against the president and their bitter comments this week. listen to romney's conference calm about obama's gifts and mccain's gifts about obama ally susan rice. >> what the president, the president's campaign did was focus on certain members of his base coalition, give them extra financial gift from the government and then work very aggressively to turn them out to vote. >> susan rice should have known better and if she didn't know better she's not qualified. she should have known better. i will do everything in my power to block her from being the united states secretary of state. >> let's go after romney first in a way that he's calculating how he lost. you can give all kinds of reasons when you lose. when you spout the argument that the other guy bought all the interest groups, that seems to diminish not jus
washington bureau chief from mother jones and our political analyst. let's take a look at some of this stuff from john mccain. four years since john mccain lost his presidential bid, ten days since mitt romney lost but they are holding a grudge against the president and their bitter comments this week. listen to romney's conference calm about obama's gifts and mccain's gifts about obama ally susan rice. >> what the president, the president's campaign did was focus on certain members of...
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good night from washington, d.c., gretawire.com. n where the middle east is. >> . >> this is a fox news alert. hours ago in closed hearings, general david petraeus made some startling statements while testifying to both house and senate intelligence committee. for the breaking news we turn to catherine herridge live on capitol hill. >> well, eric, thank you, general petraeus is someone who is known for his move the media, but today, shunned reporters, apparently taking a loading dock entrance to get in in the capitol center where he briefed two committees, house and senate intelligence committees and done in a closed or classified session behind closed doors and one of the major flash points were the cia talking points a congressional source tells fox news the cia talking points had the language changed and drafts including al-qaeda in a later draft extremists, republicans say it was an effort to downplay or minimize the role of al-qaeda in the benghazi attacks, and no one in the u.s. intelligence community could say for sure who is
good night from washington, d.c., gretawire.com. n where the middle east is. >> . >> this is a fox news alert. hours ago in closed hearings, general david petraeus made some startling statements while testifying to both house and senate intelligence committee. for the breaking news we turn to catherine herridge live on capitol hill. >> well, eric, thank you, general petraeus is someone who is known for his move the media, but today, shunned reporters, apparently taking a...
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managed out of washing said i'm going to tell you what you want to do what else doc want to hold on washington what obama needs if you're resorting to place when obamacare went into place in massachusetts we didn't see these to slow don't ask don't ask moderates in fact and central government even at the state level health care system if progress is are so good at planning our health care system they would have predicted this they would have headed off the problem if would be no answer to the status of all of their complaint is to admit they got robbed of their also medicare is they really just make this guy taking a break for a moment here and. single payer health care is what progressives who are advocating for you do what the this you guys are that we're all debating here is a very small number of very political c.e.o.'s who are taking some relatively small measures in the weeks since. election thousands of people have been hired all over the country nobody is waving a flag going oh in those they just got hired because of obama thousands of people got laid off all of that kind i don't know
managed out of washing said i'm going to tell you what you want to do what else doc want to hold on washington what obama needs if you're resorting to place when obamacare went into place in massachusetts we didn't see these to slow don't ask don't ask moderates in fact and central government even at the state level health care system if progress is are so good at planning our health care system they would have predicted this they would have headed off the problem if would be no answer to the...
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we need to be focus on them and not on politics in washington. my hope is that this will be the beginning of a free fall process -- fruitful process and we are able to balance our deficit in a balanced way. we will be focusing to make sure that middle class families are able to get ahead. i want to thank all of the leaders for coming. with that, we will get to work. thank you. there is one other point i want to make. tomorrow is house speaker boehner's birthday. for those of you who want to wish him a happy birthday, we are not going to get him a cake because we did not know how many candles we would need. [laughter] >> thank you. >> thank you. >> following the meeting, house and leaders spoke briefly to reporters. >> good morning, everyone. we just had a meeting with the president to talk about america posted fiscal problems. i outlined a framework that deals with reforming our tax code and reforming our spending. i believe the framework that i have outlined in our meeting today is consistent with the president's call for a fair and balanced app
we need to be focus on them and not on politics in washington. my hope is that this will be the beginning of a free fall process -- fruitful process and we are able to balance our deficit in a balanced way. we will be focusing to make sure that middle class families are able to get ahead. i want to thank all of the leaders for coming. with that, we will get to work. thank you. there is one other point i want to make. tomorrow is house speaker boehner's birthday. for those of you who want to...
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he said, business you have to get to washington, take to high ground. and sure enough, literally within months, the business roundtable was formed, national association of manufacturers moved their headquarters to washington. there were 175 companies when powell wrote his memo, that had lobbying offices in washington. several years later, there were 2,400, 50,000 people working for business trade. they stuffed the consumer movement. they got deregulation. they got tax cuts, all kinds of things. so the power shift tilted the policy towards business, towards the wealthy. that started in the late '70s literally when you and i were there. at the same time, you had what i call wedge economics in the economy. used to be that the prosperity, the growth of american productivity was shared. middle class had its share along with the owners, along with the shareholders. the productivity of the american workforce doubled from 1945 to 1975. >> i know a lot about this. there's gucci gulch for all the lobbyists tell us how to write tax policy. a lot of businesses draf
he said, business you have to get to washington, take to high ground. and sure enough, literally within months, the business roundtable was formed, national association of manufacturers moved their headquarters to washington. there were 175 companies when powell wrote his memo, that had lobbying offices in washington. several years later, there were 2,400, 50,000 people working for business trade. they stuffed the consumer movement. they got deregulation. they got tax cuts, all kinds of things....
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most of the chatter that i'm hearing out of washington is really focusing more on reducing the corporate tax rates. david, as you pointed out, the president is supporting that idea. look, i only hear one sector really complaining right now about this and that's the energy sector. they're not worrying about their taxes going up. they're worrying about their subsidies being cut. they're using it as a piece of blackmail to say may, if you cut our subsidy, we're going to move jobs. you know what? enough already. you can afford to do -- >> there were other companies. the problem is there are a lot of other companies worried about this. one of which is apple which has about $120 billion, about half of that money is overseas where it's not doing us any good. >> david, i think you just hit the nail on the head. that's the biggest problem is the repatriation of earnings of u.s. subsidiaries overseas. they're keeping that cash there because we're one of the very few countries that does double taxation of profits. first they get taxed overseas and then we tax them again when they get here. most cou
most of the chatter that i'm hearing out of washington is really focusing more on reducing the corporate tax rates. david, as you pointed out, the president is supporting that idea. look, i only hear one sector really complaining right now about this and that's the energy sector. they're not worrying about their taxes going up. they're worrying about their subsidies being cut. they're using it as a piece of blackmail to say may, if you cut our subsidy, we're going to move jobs. you know what?...
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and that sort of video was recovered and probably transmitted back to washington, either immediately-- >>> maybe you misunderstood my question. how do we get to blaming this on a youtube video? >> oh, okay. i think what it is that the intelligence was politicized. they gave their best assessment, including what general petraeus told congress about al qaeda involvement, being a terrorist attack and as it went up the of command, the people in the white house who sent out ambassador rice to represent the white house on the sunday show, decided what the talking points would be. my sense is, we are going to hear from them, we are trying to protect the intelligence sources and methods. we didn't want al qaeda to know we were on to them or perhaps-- >>> it's late for that -- >> we got a lot of different assessments out there and that -- this was only one of the assessments, was cia, but other people were telling us it may have been this video and this is when we decided on. they are going on spin this. they have a day or two to do that before monday morning when the press will start asking t
and that sort of video was recovered and probably transmitted back to washington, either immediately-- >>> maybe you misunderstood my question. how do we get to blaming this on a youtube video? >> oh, okay. i think what it is that the intelligence was politicized. they gave their best assessment, including what general petraeus told congress about al qaeda involvement, being a terrorist attack and as it went up the of command, the people in the white house who sent out ambassador...
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he said, business you have to get to washington, take to high ground. and sure enough, literally within months, the business roundtable was formed, national association of manufacturers moved their headquarters to washington. there were 175 companies when powell wrote his memo, that had lobbying offices in washington. several years later, there were 2,400, 50,000 people working for business trade. they stuffed the consumer movement. they got deregulation. they got tax cuts, all kinds of things. so the power shift tilted the policy towards business, towards the wealthy. that started in the late '70s literally when you and i were there. at the same time, you had what i call wedge economics in the economy. used to be that the prosperity, the growth of american productivity was shared. middle class had its share along with the owners, along with the shareholders. the productivity of the american workforce doubled from 1945 to 1975. >> i know a lot about this. there's gucci gulch for all the lobbyists tell us how to write tax policy. a lot of businesses draf
he said, business you have to get to washington, take to high ground. and sure enough, literally within months, the business roundtable was formed, national association of manufacturers moved their headquarters to washington. there were 175 companies when powell wrote his memo, that had lobbying offices in washington. several years later, there were 2,400, 50,000 people working for business trade. they stuffed the consumer movement. they got deregulation. they got tax cuts, all kinds of things....
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we begin with nbc's mike viqueira in washington. mike with a good day to you. i know you've just listened to a white house briefing on two big stories. let's talk about israel first. >> reporter: well you're right. we did hear from senior white house officials. aboard air force one the president on his way to southeast asia for a historic trip there. but these activities are really unfolding in israel and the gaza strip is dominating attention worldwide. the president spoke again with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. he has spoken with him each day before this crisis began to unfold. they talked about the iron dome program, the anti-rocket defense that is so far from what we can tell effectively protecting israel from those rocket strikes out of the gaza strip. the president has also spoken with the new egyptian president, mohammed mersi and turkish prime minister. they have relations with has mass according to the senior official they were encouraged to engage hamas to get them to stop the rocket strikes which the official characterized as the pr
we begin with nbc's mike viqueira in washington. mike with a good day to you. i know you've just listened to a white house briefing on two big stories. let's talk about israel first. >> reporter: well you're right. we did hear from senior white house officials. aboard air force one the president on his way to southeast asia for a historic trip there. but these activities are really unfolding in israel and the gaza strip is dominating attention worldwide. the president spoke again with the...
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and you had missiles flying to new york city, washington, d.c., i'm sure the u.s. would have acted long before we waited, maybe too long. but now we are determined and we are calling for the talks to get ready and we're telling to the hamas leadership and to the people in egypt today. we cannot wait any more. >> let me ask you about the troops because, as you mentioned, the possibility of this ground campaign and israel has approved the call up of 75,000 reservists. do you see israeli troops going into gaza? under what circumstances? what would make that happen? >> prime minister netanyahu said it very clearly. the goal is to bring peace and quiet to the region. if the air strikes are not efishant and the hamas would not understand that we're talking business. we would not allow missiles to fly and we do not want to do it, but we cannot wait until we see more coming. only two days ago, three people and we see the picture and the hamas hurting the israeli children, but are using the palestinian children because they're hiding behind them, as well. >> let me ask you
and you had missiles flying to new york city, washington, d.c., i'm sure the u.s. would have acted long before we waited, maybe too long. but now we are determined and we are calling for the talks to get ready and we're telling to the hamas leadership and to the people in egypt today. we cannot wait any more. >> let me ask you about the troops because, as you mentioned, the possibility of this ground campaign and israel has approved the call up of 75,000 reservists. do you see israeli...